v. 300. _Agayne all remordes_] i. e. Against all blamings, censures, carpings: see note, p. 193. v. 101: but as in v. 368, where MS. has “remordes,” the sense absolutely requires “remorders,” there is perhaps the same error here. —— _Morda puros mal desires_] This strange gibberish (which occurs twice afterwards) seems to mean,—To bite the pure, is an evil desire. v. 304. _sadde_] See note, p. 264. v. 1711. v. 305. _ower soleyne seigneour Sadoke_]—_soleyne_, i. e. sullen: in applying the name _Sadoke_ to Wolsey, Skelton alludes to the high-priest of Scripture, not to the knight of the Round Table. v. 306. _nostre dame de Crome_] So in _A Mery Play between Johan the Husbande, Tyb his Wyfe, and Syr Jhan the Preest_, 1533, attributed to Heywood; “But, by goggis blod, were she come home Unto this my house, by _our lady of Crome_, I wolde bete her or that I drynke.” p. 1. reprint. v. 307. _assone_] i. e. as soon. v. 308. _to exployte the man owte of the mone_] i. e. to achieve the feat of driving the man out of the moon. v. 309. _With porpose and graundepose he may fede hym fatte,_ _Thowghe he pampyr not hys paunche with the grete seall_] —_porpose and graundepose_, i. e. porpoise and grampus. The pun in the second line is sufficiently plain. v. 311. _lokyd_] i. e. looked. v. 313. _every deall_] i. e. every part. Page 16. v. 319. _nodypollys_] i. e. silly-heads. —— _gramatolys_] i. e. smatterers. v. 320. _To ... sentence_] i. e. Too ... meaning. v. 326. _sadlye_] See note, p. 267. v. 1966. —— _Sydrake_] So Wolsey is termed here in allusion to a romance (characterised by Warton as “rather a romance of Arabian philosophy than of chivalry,” _Hist. of E. P._, i. 143. ed. 4to), which was translated from the French by Hugh of Caumpeden, and printed in 1510, under the title of _The Historie of King Boccus and Sydracke_, &c. v. 327. _coniecte_] i. e. conjecture. v. 328. _mellis_] i. e. meddles. Page 16. v. 330. _Hyt_] i. e. It. v. 331. _a cheryston pytte_] An allusion to a game played with cherry-stones; “I can playe at the _chery pytte_ And I can wystell you a fytte Syres in a whylowe ryne.” _The Worlde and the Chylde_, 1522. sig. A iii. v. 332. _sterrys_] i. e. stars. v. 337. _syn_] i. e. since. v. 339. _Non sine postica sanna_] “—— _posticæ_ occurrite _sannæ_.” Persius, _Sat._ i. 65. Page 17. v. 354. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 355. _popagay_] i. e. parrot. Page 18. v. 356. _propyr_] i. e. pretty, handsome. v. 358. _supply_] i. e. supplicate. v. 360. _agayne_] i. e. against. v. 362. _slaundrys obliqui_] i. e. slanderous obloquy. v. 365. _jacounce_] i. e. jacinth. v. 366. _balas_] See note, p. 326. v. 1166. v. 367. _eyndye sapher_] See note, p. 101. v. 17. v. 368. _remorde[r]s_] i. e. blamers, censurers: see note, p. 193. v. 101. Page 19.—— _votorum meorum omnis lapis, lapis pretiosus operimentum tuum_] From the Vulgate, “Omnis lapis pretiosus operimentum tuum.” _Ezech._ xxviii. 13.